Prof. Mikhail Dorojevets, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded a contract
related to
cyber security from the Office of Director of National Intelligence, IARPA. It is the first ever
IARPA contract awarded to Stony Brook University.

Mikhail Dorojevets received his M.S. degree in Physics and Electronic Engineering from the Institute
of Physics and Technology, Moscow in 1982. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer
Engineering from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1988. From 1982 to 1995, he was
a principal designer in several projects on high-performance systems design for Russian
science, defense, and industry. In 1988, he received the Outstanding Achievement
Diploma jointly awarded by the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the USSR State Committee
on Science and Technology for his pioneer work on MARS-M, the first computer with
simultaneous multithreading. Since 1996, he has been an Assistant and (since 2000)
an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at
Stony Brook University. His research interests include energy-efficient superconductor
computing, cyber security, cryptography, parallel computer architectures, and all
aspects of processor and circuit design. Mikhail Dorojevets's research work has been
funded by NSF, NASA, NSA, IARPA, and US Army Research Office. He worked as consultant
to US federal agencies, government labs, and industrial corporations, including Sony
Electronics and Northrop-Grumman.